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CHAPTER 7

CHAPTER 7. AGRICULTURE/URBAN GROWTH. AGRICULTURE. $38 bil . 400 comm. 50% fruits, nuts, veg. 9/10 top producing counties in U.S. (6.6% total economic output). WHEAT. 1860-1890: Largest “ bindlemen ” Decline: competition Shift . WINE. Missions: poor quality . Jean L. Vignes.

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  1. CHAPTER 7 AGRICULTURE/URBAN GROWTH

  2. AGRICULTURE • $38 bil. • 400 comm. • 50% fruits, nuts, veg. • 9/10 top producing counties in U.S. (6.6% total economic output)

  3. WHEAT • 1860-1890: Largest • “bindlemen” • Decline: competition • Shift

  4. WINE • Missions: poor quality

  5. Jean L. Vignes • El Aliso • 1830’s, L.A. • 1850: Largest production

  6. North • 1850’s: Agoston Haraszthy, Sonoma Valley • Anaheim: 1857, German

  7. CENTRAL VALLEY • Dessert wines • Table grapes • Raisins

  8. 1900: 19 million gal. • 80% U.S.

  9. CITRUS (05/06) • 2ND • 24% oranges, 80% fresh market • 87% lemons

  10. 3 DEV. • Location (higher ele., away coast)

  11. Navel (Brasil) • Seedless, sweeter

  12. Railroads

  13. VALENCIA • Coastal • Summer

  14. 1900: 2/3 oranges, 90% lemons • Sunkist Growers (1925): association

  15. BEHEMOTH • Agriculture to “agribusiness” • Cheap labor: Chinese • Then Japanese, Mexican • Contentious relations

  16. CHINESE LABOR • “built” agr. industry • Irrigation, canals, etc. • 1880 • 86% Sac. Co. • 85% Yuba

  17. JAPANESE FARMERS • 1910: 70% strawberries • 1920: 10% crops CA

  18. URBANIZATION • S.F.++ • Surrounding areas

  19. SO. CAL. • Citrus • “health rush”: better health • 1880’s + • Railroad comp.: advertising

  20. ELECTRIC RAIL • Largest in world

  21. OIL • E. Doheny: L.A.

  22. SPREAD • 1920’s • H.B., SFS • Signal Hill: richest barrel/acre • More than gold, $2.5 bil. 1920’s

  23. CARS • Significance?

  24. 1900: 4k • $$$ • 1908: Model T

  25. 1925 • 1 in 3: cars • L.A.: most motor-conscious

  26. IMPACT? • Expansion, suburbs, spread • “supermarket” • “Miracle Mile”- for cars

  27. Tourism • Service stations

  28. First “park” • Valley to Ca

  29. J. MUIR • Naturalist • Conservation • “natural state” • Sierra Club (1892)

  30. 1905: Yosemite Val. back to U.S.

  31. Sequoia, Kings Canyon

  32. WATER =$$$

  33. HetchHetchy Valley • SF • Muir, Sierra

  34. LA? • So Cal dry • natural water 200k people.

  35. Land+

  36. Pop.+

  37. ??? • Water

  38. Owens River

  39. Aqueduct

  40. Dynamiting

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